The name is Konstantin Klein. I'm a senior editor with Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin, Germany. I've been blogging since October 30, 2000, under various blog and domain names. This is the 2010 edition of my weblog.
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I like it when competitors copy me because it means they aren’t about to leapfrog me: they’ll always be playing catch-up.
Your humble narrator, back in October when Nokia filed a patent suit against Apple:
If you can’t beat ’em, sue ’em.
I feel this suit against HTC is a terrible mistake.
From the Easily Amused Dept.: The funny thing is, we have an IT industry with three leaders. The really funny thing: although they love to pretend to, the three of them are not actually competing.
Three separate market segments, with ample space for each. Cue track "Why can't we live together" now.
As I said. Easily amused I am.
No, I haven't followed His Steveness' keynote (had to work, focussed). Yes, I did notice that Apple Inc. is about to sell something called iPad, more or less a tablet computer, an oversized iPod touch, a fancier e-reader. Yes, I've read many of the articles which ended up in my feedreader over the past five hours. Yes, I like the way vowe put it all together.
And here's my opinion on it, not based on my own experience, not based on the technical specifications of the iPad, and certainly not based on other reviews:
It may be that, with the iPad, Apple again can change the way we use computers. It most certainly will happen - as it did with the iPhone, the iPod etc - that the second generation of the iPad will see many of the things still missing from the iPad. It even may be that it will take us a while to really recognize the impact of the iPad.
Or maybe not.
When the iPhone came out, I immediately wanted one. It took me some time to get over the price, so I ended up buying an iPhone 3G. In the meantime, I've moved beyond the iPhone, but I still remember this Must. Have. The. iPhone. feeling, and I still consider the iPhone an incredibly sexy piece of technology.
With the iPad? No so much - actually, even after reading all those reviews, the question "Why?" still dominates my idea of the iPad.
But hey, that's just me and my guts.
"120% of employee's time for Steve's projects", "Because Steve says so". Somehow, I'm thankful for working for who I'm working for.
